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DCP-LETT-8492

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 118–19; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156 f. 1075)
Summary:

Encloses letter and cheque [from John Scott].

Again in thick of Ayrton matter. Tyndall and Huxley have shown themselves equal to the occasion in grasp of subject, tenacity of purpose, independence, and good-will.

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DCP-LETT-8493

From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 169
Summary:

Discusses ideas on the development of language; agrees with CD that it is a process governed by unconscious selection; he considers it analogous to unconscious selection of domestic animals by savages. Remarks on the differing views of Max Müller and W. D. Whitney regarding the origin of language and its development. Comments on the extent to which unintentional effects can be ascribed directly to the agency of free intelligent wills.

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DCP-LETT-8496

From:
Richard Harte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 110
Summary:

Report about six-toed cats; trait persistent for three generations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.424)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
30 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 267–8)
Summary:

Asks JM to send copies of all his books to Anton Dohrn.

Koch [of Schweizerbart] requires 3000 sets of copies of the heliotype plates [for German edition of Expression].

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DCP-LETT-8495F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
30 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Duke’s, Dorchester (dealers) (6 September 2018, lot 367)
Summary:

Asks them to procure the two volumes of Living Cirripedia for Anton Dohrn’s zoological station in Naples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8499

From:
Frederic William Harmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 103
Summary:

He became entrapped in the W. Lyon controversy by defending CD against Frederic Bateman of Norwich.

As a religious man, FWH wants to apologise for the attacks CD has suffered in the name of religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8498

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B113–14
Summary:

Further reflections upon Bastian’s book [The beginnings of life (1872)].

ARW’s prospects for Directorship at Bethnal Green Museum.

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WCP1955

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 August 1872
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B113-114
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 244
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 276-277]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
31 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thanks CW for long, interesting letter; hopes the ideas will be worked into an essay some day.

Suggests dates for a proposed visit and gives instructions for reaching Down.

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